{"id":537,"date":"2007-08-04T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmfofliquidinc.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/04\/singer-plating-and-a-rainbow\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:57:00","slug":"singer-plating-and-a-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Singer, Plating, and a Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/singer1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more Reversible feed, horizontal rotary hook, for family use-->I have my late grandmother&#8217;s 66 year old sewing machine. I&#8217;ve been meaning to work on it and learn on it, but haven&#8217;t had the time to do so. Of course, part of my on-going theremin project needed some sewing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/singer2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Grandmother took amazing care of her things. She was completely thorough, saving notes, old parts, everything.<\/p>\n<p>In the manual, she wrote down when she oiled the gears and lubricated the motor. This is what was written in the margins:<\/p>\n<p>Lubricated Motor June 2, 1948 + Oiled Machine thoroughly<br \/>\nDitto for both Jan 13, 1950<br \/>\n    &#8221;    &#8221;      &#8221;   March 20, 51<br \/>\nOiled machine Nov 1, 51<br \/>\noiled mach, lub. motor June 10, 55<br \/>\noiled mach, lub. motor Aug, 56<br \/>\n&nbsp;    whole<br \/>\nThe^Works!! Oct 12, 1963 \u2013 7 yrs!\t \\<br \/>\n&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp; 3\/2\/71  8 yrs!    \t\u2013 Because of R<br \/>\n&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp; 1\/23\/75<br \/>\n&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp; 6\/18\/79\tgood grief! 4 yrs!!<br \/>\n&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp; 7\/6\/83\t\t&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp; 7\/1\/94\t\u201311 yrs!!\t\tMoved in 11\/91<\/p>\n<p>Today I got to add, &#8220;oiled machine August 4, 2007   13 years!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I cried. I&#8217;m teary right now. I could feel something special when I was oiling the machine. It felt amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I want to take some really beautiful pictures of it.<\/p>\n<p>It worked great, and I made some antenna slips for a set I&#8217;m selling to a man in SC who owns an antenna-less RCA theremin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/antennasleeves.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made the box for it last week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/antennaboxed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have 7 plated sets of antenna: 2 for myself, 2 for RCA owners, and 3 to sell to people who are doing what I did.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/7platedantenna.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/platedantenna.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/platedantennadetail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw a double rainbow a few days ago. It filled the whole dark sky and was glorious.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/doublerainbow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,13,14],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-sewing","tag-theremin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}